Insurance
Software survey 2003
Survey
Trouble from above
Pension funds
RMS publishes daily weather derivatives data
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based provider of software for the management of natural hazard risks, has begun publishing daily weather market price data on the internet.
Reinventing the market
Cashflow CDOs
Taming the FIX connection
With large firms now juggling dozens of FIX connections, industry organizations and vendors are trying to soothe the protocol’s first set of growing pains.
Insurance sector: moral hazard
Credit of the month
Letter bomb
Sterling liquidity
Pensions’ credit crisis
The markets’ swoon isn’t the only problem plaguing pension plans, according to credit derivatives dealers. They are also dangerously exposed to their own corporate sponsors. Navroz Patel reports on recent efforts to convince pensions to hedge this risk
Red hot in the frozen North
Hedge funds
Ford: spanner in the works?
Credit of the month
Euro derivatives in the Nordic markets
Sponsor's Statement
Buying and selling risk
Risk budgeting
Innovation fuels Italy’s securitisation boom
Tax changes and increasing corporate credit risk have prompted Italian dealers to look for new assets to securitise.
Hedge market too risky for pension investment
fund managers need to look for better returns elsewhere
European telcos: mixed signals
Credit of the month
The roads to currency overlay
Forex risk
Swiss Re signs up for updated RMS weather trading system
Swiss Re Financial Products (SRFP) has licensed an updated weather risk trading system developed by Risk Management Solutions (RMS), the California-based technology and data firm.
Europe’s patchwork path to liberalisation
In the three years since the European Union’s Electricity Directive came into effect much has changed in Europe’s energy industry, but the industry is still far from achieving the goal of a pan-European energy market, as Matt Horsbrugh discovers